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Articles in July, 2005 issue of Risk & Insurance

• Band of RIMS brothers: cheesesteaks finally digested, writer Roger Crombie reflects on RIMS 2005, Philadelphia, gambling losses, giant rabbits, trumpeting Marines, Hunter Thompson, a whale named Helis, a painted lady and schizophrenia. Honolulu may have d
  by Roger Crombie
• Progressive Medical, Inc
• Threat of 'gobbler risk' fades: 15-year trend data show people more likely to be injured by playing volleyball than hunting turkeys
  by Cyril Touhy
• Rx costs out of control: a new study finds that employers are overpaying millions of dollars for drugs in workers' comp cases. The reason they are doing so is due to the shocking number of errors in filling prescriptions. How did such a system spin so far
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Willis Group Holdings
• Moving on up: climbing the corporate ladder, it turns out, requires careful doses of contradictory ingredients
  by Cyril Touhy
• Zero Zealot: for Engelhard Corp.'s Richard Sarnie, loss is a four-letter word and deserves a four-letter answer: zero
  by Lawrence Richter Quinn
• Venture Technology and Venture Life Science
• Behind the pages of Risk & Insurance®
  by Jack Roberts
• Lurking beneath the surface: depression as a secondary health issue affects many employees who are out of work due to illness or injury, if not treated, it can undermine the recovery and delay his or her return to work. Worse still, it may aggravate the p
  by Mindy Owen
• MarketScout
• Analysts: the IT checkbook opens a little wider—but for existing systems: the choice facing IT departments is whether to replace the entire policy administration system, or only a component part
  by Cyril Touhy
• Pushing a revolutionary agenda: legislation in California has opened the door for a new paradigm in the workers' compensation medical model. But to inspire this change, we need to ask some hard questions about our current discount-provider networks
  by Maddy Bowling
• Directory: insurance company software directory
• A billion here, a billion there: an analysis of property/casualty insurance industry income in 2003
• Opportunity knocks for independents: it's fat city for independent brokers today—and not just because of Eliot Spitzer's investigation, which has companies wondering just who exactly their broking bedmates are
  by Lawrence Richter Quinn
• Venture Insurance Programs Inc
• Correction
• Casting doubt
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Worth repeating
• A good plan gone awry: finite risk covers started out as a good idea—a product that filled a gap in the traditional marketplace, particularly for certain kinds of unusual risks, such as terrorism. Problems have arisen, however, because some have elec
  by Patricia Vowinkel
• Upcoming events
• Pain drugs: are we addicted?
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Industry risk report: restaurants
• Occupational safety
  by Hal Lucas
• Ratings vs. reality
  by Roger Crombie
• The two worlds of European renewals: reinsurance company managers paint a rosy picture of a soft marketplace welcoming buyers with stable or slightly lower prices. Buyers of reinsurance contracts, however, fret over price hikes, terms and security
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Health care for the rich
  by Nancy J. Morgan
• From silicosis to 'litigosis'
  by Joseph A. Ziemianski
• Pointing fingers at employees, customers and suppliers: last March, a diner claimed she found part of a severed finger in her chili at a Wendy's International Restaurant in San Jose, Calif. The incident is the latest to highlight the risks facing risk exe
  by John Williams